Speaker

Meredith Canady

Meredith Canady is a Partner in KPMG’s National Office, leading the Accounting Standards Group’s topic team on Revenue. She is responsible for developing KPMG’s positions, guidance and training on the new revenue standard. She has co-authored a number of publications on the new revenue standard including KPMG’s Revenue Recognition Handbook.

 

Ms. Canady rejoined KPMG in 2015 after four years as Vice President of Global Accounting Policy & Advisory at American Express. While at American Express, Ms. Canady led the company’s revenue implementation project. Her responsibilities included establishing a multi-functional governance and project structure, interpreting the new standard and developing positions, evaluating process, system and information gaps, and representing the company in public roundtables with the FASB and IASB and in a variety of industry groups.

 

Prior to her time at American Express, Ms. Canady spent four years in KPMG’s National Office and ten years in KPMG’s Atlanta office with a focus on auditing large multinational corporations in the industrial and consumer markets.